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“I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.”

Left Sea Horse Knees Upside Down Birthmarks

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.”

Littles Left Boys Sea Pride Summer Glory Mercy Depth Broke Streams Length Swim Weary Rude Wanton Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”

Pain Time Left Consciousness Sea Eternity Boundaries You Left Me

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.”

May Left Wish Sea Land Mines Comfort Chains Thee Vain Ties Land And Sea

Author:William Wordsworth

“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!”

Ifs Would Be Moving Left Force Black Walks Cases Sea Areas Russia Sensitive Troops Nato Crimea Coastline

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”

Play Left Parent Sound Forever Cutting Sea Middle Rivers Depth Fishes Boat Fearless Lakes Fishing Tails Sweetest Rushing Mute Mingling

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.”

Ifs Left Sea Theory Rivers Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Lakes And Rivers

Author:Izaak Walton

“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.”

People Trying Doe Seems Beautiful Values Left Social Sports Sea Aspect Rivers Fishes Accomplish Genuine Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Solitary Surroundings Crowded Left Alone Contemplative Trout

Author:John Gierach

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

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“The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.”

Left Dark Behinds Sea Sky Land Grew Moon Boat Riding

Book:Song for the Basilisk

Source: Song for the Basilisk

“He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'”

Ifs Made House Left Sleep Walks Sea Bed Ems Mates Toms Bedroom Shut Up Rats Going To Sleep Spooky Racks Ragged

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.”

Wells Might Left Behinds Sea Childhood Rivers Our Children Leaving Fountain

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected